Dr Robbie’s Bike Crisis on ‘9am’

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9am

season 2 episode 3

Editor’s rating 4 stars ****

A motorcycle accident brings Dr. Robbie’s midlife crisis into the spotlight. Photo: Warrick Page/MAX

Well, let’s leave it to Noah Wyle to write his own version of what Dr. Robbie’s three-month motorcycle vacation is like: a midlife crisis. And not only is he impeccably dressed up by a patient who turns 50 and suddenly dips into rider culture, but he, and we all, get a close-up of what it looks like when he decides to ride his bike without a helmet and his head hits the pavement. It involves the exposed brain. The patient was pronounced dead within seconds. What’s strange is that in that moment Robbie flat-out lied to his colleagues and stubbornly insisted he was wearing a helmet when he was proven to have done so in the season opener. The alarm bells continue to ring for Dr. Robinavich.

In his first writing credit for the new season, Wiley is also working on a small but moving storyline that pays homage to the people of Pittsburgh. That woman who saw through the sabbatical label and saw it for what it really was? Her name is Yana. He heard firecrackers go off and suffered severe burns on his legs and dropped the entire samovar. Despite literally having the skin fall off his body, Yana is thrilled to learn that Dr. Robbie is Jewish and wants to know which synagogue he attends. She tells him she is going to the Tree of Life. She was also there on Oct. 27, 2018, and had just entered the building when the gunman opened fire that morning. She’s mostly okay now – just like everyone else is okay – but the firecrackers still get her excited. In a particularly touching moment, Jana thanked Parra as she debrided the burn. Because it was Muslims in the Pittsburgh community who rallied around the Tree of Life, raised money for the victims, paid for their funerals, and stood by them. Last week, a man in a cast had maggots crawling on the inside of his arm. The story unfolds like this this week. There are many people in the pit.

Aside from Robbie’s emotional roller coaster that lasts all of 9 o’clock, most of our time is spent with three different couples, each with their own problems. Let’s start with Benny and Gina. He is the father of Kylie and the girlfriend of a 9-year-old with a birthmark. Even though stress reveals a lot about a person and in their case that they probably shouldn’t be together, I still feel sorry for these two. In particular, Gina was honestly only thinking about her job and was playing with her boyfriend’s daughter, but in the end her own boyfriend accused her of being incompetent. I’ve only known Benny for 30 seconds, but he doesn’t seem like a person I’d be too upset about. I’m not against him, but just a few minutes later, when Santos and Dylan pull him aside to chat, Benny absolutely jumps at everyone around him when he realizes they’re tiptoeing around accusing them of child abuse. The only thing that prevented this from escalating into a physical fight was Kylie’s blood tests done at the right time, which revealed that she had ITP. All of the bruises and injuries occur because her blood isn’t clotting properly. Benny did not abuse his daughter. That’s exactly why multiple people warned Santos not to jump to conclusions. She looked embarrassed about her mistake for all of five minutes. She then grins as she watches Benny and Gina’s relationship fall apart before her eyes. Sure, she was just taking care of Kylie, but she shouldn’t have fun with this. I’m rooting for Santos wholeheartedly, but she’s still a threat. However, good news. Kylie will have to stay in the hospital for a few days to work on her ITP, but other than that she’s doing just fine.

We also met a couple in a car involved in the aforementioned motorcycle accident. Mr. Mark Yi was driving the car, and although he was responding to pain, he was unconscious, and unfortunately both arms and legs appear to be paralyzed. His wife, Nancy, seemed fine after the accident, but is stunned. They had been fighting all morning. she blames herself. She said something terrible to her husband. Those can’t be the last words she says to him. She refuses to leave the house to get tested herself. She is with her husband.

After a CT scan, doctors were unable to find any spinal damage that could have caused Mark’s paralysis, and they discovered the reason. His potassium levels are dangerously low. Both Dr. Roby and Dr. Al Hashimi are in complete disbelief. Mark exhibits symptoms of a rare disease called hypokalemic periodic paralysis. The words “sudden onset paralysis” are not comforting to hear, but they mean Mark’s paralysis is temporary. The attack was caused by the stress of the accident. Mark should begin to recover within a few hours. This relieved everyone, but especially Nancy.

And then she faints. In the confusion of dealing with Mark and Nancy’s insistence that she was okay, no one gave her a quick check. If so, her lower abdomen would have been severely bruised by the seatbelt – she had damaged her spleen and was suffering from internal bleeding. This woman was bleeding all the time. It doesn’t look too good for PTMC, and Garcia gets pissed while rushing Nancy to the operating room. Mark wakes up, asks his wife what happened, and blames himself for the accident. He is distraught over the last words he said to her. He has Dana help him make a video, telling Nancy how much he loves her and how sorry he is. “Is this how it works?” he asks Robbie at one point. “You think things are important, but you end up coming here and looking at them…” Well, Robbie tells him. That’s exactly right. It’s honestly pretty romantic, even if you have life-threatening injuries. Or maybe because you suffered a life-threatening injury. As a whole, Pitt fans are freakish about emergencies, and we need to be honest with each other about it.

In case you were a little emotional about the story of the Yee family, we haven’t even mentioned the episode’s saddest couple yet: Michael Williams and his ex-wife Gretchen. You may remember Michael as a patient of McKay’s. He had a fall early this morning and has since started exhibiting strange behavioral changes. When the scan results finally come back, we begin to understand his strange behavior. It turns out he has a large mass in his frontal lobe. McKay is calm and reassuring as he explains (to Santos, who knows) that we shouldn’t jump to conclusions about what this is all about. She recommends doing a biopsy to find out what’s going on. Yes, that means cutting into his brain. That way he can find a cure.

What’s really troubling is that Michael hasn’t changed his emergency contacts since the divorce, and his ex-wife Gretchen is still on the list. She showed up when they called, even though she hadn’t seen him in four years. she remarried. She looks happy, but clearly still in love with Michael, in a real, wistful way, like staring out the window on a rainy morning. Michael was kinder and gentler than when he explained to her what was going on with McKay. He tells her that she deserves to be happy. Even McKay is like, “This is so intimate, we have to get out of here.”

Later, McKay runs into Gretchen while out. Gretchen explains that by the end of their marriage, Michael was very different from the man she was married to. His temper was unstable and he got into fights with strangers. She asks questions that we all already know the answers to, including her. Could he have had this tumor for a long time and caused those changes? yes. most likely. That’s shocking. The end of their marriage was due to something completely out of their control. She asks McKay to leave her as an emergency contact in case he needs her again. It’s deeply depressing, and I couldn’t be happier that elsewhere, McKay is being flirted with both by a seemingly innocuous elderly Walmart clerk with a broken coccyx, who twirls her around as he serenades her with “La Mer,” and by an age-appropriate patient who loves her witchy laugh. Look, if getting yelled at by a hot patient is McKay’s way of dealing with it, give her more power. It’s only been three hours since this shift started, and it’s already mentally taxing. And that was before Dana received word that another nearby hospital, Westbridge, was under code black and all ambulance traffic was being diverted to PTMC. Robbie is going to really regret his comment at the beginning of the hour, “The day is starting to get hot.” Chaos is imminent.

• There are few details about what’s going on at Westbridge, and everyone has a theory. “Why? How much? How many times?” Ahmad brings back the season 1 betting board, baby.

• ah! I’m worried about Louis. Whittaker takes everything out of him, but he only looks worse and worse. He also gets a little harsh on Whittaker, who tries to make small talk to distract Louis from his pain. We have never seen him so upset. Something is wrong.

・I’m also mentally preparing myself for whatever happens to Jackson. The college student is on some kind of mental break after (and before) being taped by a campus security guard with an over-inflated ego that reeks of racism, and immediately assumes Jackson must be doing drugs. I have never loved Dr. Al Hashimi so much. That’s when she makes sure to read out loud the test results that prove there are no drugs in Jackson’s system. That way the police know it’s too early for this guard to pull out his Taser.

• Did anyone else feel deep satisfaction when Langdon and Donnie took two beads out of young Duante’s nose?